What does your support enable?

  • Sustaining and Growing Our Network

    Connect our 320+ member global community through peer exchange, shared learning, and regular convenings that turn practitioner experience into collective knowledge on locally led development

    Provide targeted technical assistance to network members advancing locally led approaches in their own contexts

  • Expanding Our Evidence Base

    Produce publications, tools, and case studies that translate a decade of locally led practice into resources the broader sector can use

    Conduct an evaluation of the Local Works program to document what worked, what didn’t, and what it actually takes to shift power at scale

  • Putting Ideas of Locally Led Development into Action

    Pilot co-created, trust-based funding models with our network of 400+ community-based partners

    Launch joint grants and other resourced community-to-community connections across borders around shared challenges, empowering peer learning, reciprocal exchange, and solidarity between communities

  • Shaping the Future of Development

    Develop the Locally Led Development Playbook — a practical policy, legal, and operational blueprint for the next generation of U.S. foreign assistance

    Engage policymakers, Congressional staff, and key sector audiences to advance locally led development in policy and practice

  • Building Domestic Partnerships

    Build a broad domestic constituency for community-led global cooperation through storytelling, public narrative, and community engagement

    Enable alliances, convenings, and shared learning that advance locally led development as a principle applicable everywhere, connecting leaders and practitioners of community-led work wherever it is happening

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Questions?

Is Local Works Global a non-profit?
Local Works Global is a fiscally sponsored project of Accountability Lab, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Their fiscal sponsorship provides nonprofit compliance, donation processing, and tax-deductibility for charitable contributions, while allowing Local Works Global to lead programmatic strategy and execution.
Is my donation tax-deductible?
Yes. As a fiscally sponsored project of a qualified 501(c)(3) public charity, all charitable contributions are tax deductible.
Where does my donation go?
Donations made through Infinite Giving are treated as unrestricted. That means these funds will be spread across programmatic and operational costs, regardless of sector, geography, or other restrictions. If you’d like to make a restricted gift, please contact us at info@localworksglobal.org.
Do you accept in-kind donations?
Possibly! We’d love to learn what you’re thinking. Please email us at info@localworksglobal.org, and we’ll get back to you within 1-3 business days.
Once I donate, how will I stay up to date with the work you do?
We’re so glad you’re interested in staying up to date with the impact you help fuel. Once you donate, we’ll reach out to you personally to understand how you want to stay connected, and what kind of work you’re most interested in hearing about.